I Google Chrome

A Google engineer came and spoke at my university a few years ago, and talked about one of Google’s strategies – ‘Release Early, Release Often’. This partially explains why GMail is in perpetual Beta – It is constantly being changed and improved, and so never really reaches ‘Final’. When Chrome was first released, I wondered [...]

While playing with Application Shortcuts for the last post, I found that Chrome will not make an ‘Incognito Application Shortcut’. That is, even if you are in an incognito window when you first make an Application Shortcut, whenever you open it, your web application will be in a regular, non-incognito window.  To get around this [...]

Many have theorised that Google Chrome is the first part of a ‘Google Internet Operating System’. The idea is that the only application you really need to run on your computer is your web browser – everything else is web based.  One feature in Google Chrome that demonstrates this paradigm is the ‘Application Shortcuts’. I [...]

Ctrl + F is the standard method of bringing up a search box in pretty much every application I use. Firefox has another method of searching the current page – Type to Search. Anytime when the focus isn’t on some kind of input element, just type a word to search the current page for that [...]

As someone who does some simple web design and programming, the look and feel of web pages is important to me. And when I want to lay something out in a specific way, I find that the best way to learn is by seeing what other people have done. But diving head first into 500 [...]